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10: Global Empires

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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The World of Empires

Vasco da Gama and Christopher Columbus discovered the Indies, which is now called America. All of this is because of Ottoman Empire, blocking trade routes. After these unexpected encounters with new places in America, there are new supplies of precious metals. And of course there are new people to colonize and to convert. Our history is partly about how slavery in a certain part of the world comes to an end. It's just that our history fits into this larger history and it helps a larger history make sense.

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